On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:18:19 -0800, thumper wrote:

On 1/14/2013 10:07 AM, Salmonbait wrote:
...as ESAD and a few others would have us believe:

Does this info ever get to the liberals?

*The latest Murder Statistics for the world:*

*Murders per 100,000 citizens*


[trimmed]

*United States 4.2*


http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/homicide.html

Your reference shows the US at 4.8 in 2010 (higher in previous years)
but why stop there? Seems there is plenty of room for improvement.

Martinique 4.2
Albania 4.0
Chile 3.7
Solomon Is. 3.7
Sri Lanka 3.6
India 3.5
Montenegro 3.5
Argentina 3.4
Cambodia 3.4
Turkey 3.3
Taiwan 3.2
Uzbekistan 3.1
Latvia 3.1
Iran 3.0
Fiji 2.8
Liechtenstein 2.8
Nepal 2.8
Bangladesh 2.7
Afghanistan 2.4 ? source: WHO
Korea 2.6
Luxembourg 2.5
Malaysia 2.3
Syria 2.3 ?
Azerbaijan 2.2
Kuwait 2.2
Lebanon 2.2
Finland 2.2
Tajikistan 2.1
Israel 2.1
Iraq 2.0 ?
Bulgaria 2.0
Romania 2.0
Macedonia 1.9
Jordan 1.8
Belgium 1.7
Cyprus 1.7
Czech Rep. 1.7
Canada 1.6
Viet Nam 1.6
Maldives 1.6
Slovakia 1.5
Bosnia/Herz. 1.5
Greece 1.5
Armenia 1.4
Croatia 1.4
Hungary 1.3
Andorra 1.3
Ireland 1.2
Portugal 1.2
Serbia 1.2
UK 1.2
France 1.1
Netherlands 1.1
Poland 1.1
Samoa 1.1
Australia 1.0
China 1.0
Bhutan 1.0
Malta 1.0
Saudi Arabia 1.0
Sweden 1.0
Tonga 1.0
Italy 0.9
Qatar 0.9
Denmark 0.9
Micronesia 0.9
New Zealand 0.9
Vanuatu 0.9
Spain 0.8
Germany 0.8
U.A.E. 0.8
Macao 0.7
Oman 0.7
Slovenia 0.7
Switzerland 0.7
Austria 0.6
Bahrain 0.6
Guam 0.6
Norway 0.6
Brunei 0.5
Japan 0.4
French Polynesia 0.4
Singapore 0.3
Iceland 0.3
Hong Kong 0.2
Monaco 0.0
Palau 0.0

Isn't pride supposed to be a sin?


Good point, Thumper.

Herring thinks "We're not as bad as them" is an excuse for not doing
what's right?